India, Sept. 16 -- Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta chaired a Commonwealth workshop on inclusivity in resource-constrained parliaments at the 69th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Cape Town on Monday, saying capacity may vary across legislatures but democratic dignity cannot.

The Joint Network Workshop on "Delivering Inclusivity Measures in Capacity Strained Parliaments" featured Yukon Legislative Assembly Speaker Yvonne Clarke, Turks and Caicos Islands MP Akierra Missick, and Trinidad and Tobago House Clerk Brian Bernard Caesar, discussing how legislatures with limited resources could advance gender sensitivity, disability inclusion and accessibility.

Gupta noted women held only 27.5 percent of seats in national parliament...